Ebola: The battle plan must include specific treatments

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9976, 2015, Pages 1373-1375

  Dunning, Jake ^a   Fischer, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; FX 06; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIOSAFETY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FLUID BALANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL CARE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR LEAK SYNDROME; BLOOD VESSEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD VESSELS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 84928698500     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62353-9     Document Type: Note

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